1st edition/1st printing. Clean, straight & tight book, light green boards with dark blue cloth spine and gilt lettering on the spine. There is light rubbing of the spine edges from shelving and two tiny dings on other edges. The unclipped, price intact dust jacket is clean and bright with light edgewear and a few small edge tears that are internally mended. Introduction to the book is written by Jacques Barzun and it has been translated from the French by Linda Asher and Ellen Fertig. 'Restif de la Bretonne, probably best known as a prolific pornographer, is a unique witness, both acute and intimate, of the street life of Paris in the years 1786-1793, immediately preceding and through the beginning of the French revolution', from dj. ; 8 1/4" x 6"; 375 pages